Dave King

In this fun, friendly primer, Dave King, acknowledged as a mountain biking "guru" by Sports Illustrated, opens the sport to everyone-young or old, athletic or not. Along the way, you'll discover how to keep fit, enjoy the great outdoors, and even change your outlook on life's everyday challenges. With an approach the New York Times dubbed "Zen and the art of mountain biking," King has helped thousands of riders discover the sport, as founder and...

Photographs and questions present the numbers from one to one thousand and provide opportunities to find and count objects.

Text and photographs present the anatomy, behavior, habitats, and other aspects of wild and domestic cats.

Text and pictures introduce musical instruments from early times to the present--from pipes and flutes to electronic synthesizers.

Photographs and text examine different types of shells, including seashells, eggshells, and fossil shells, focusing on such aspects as how shells camouflage themselves and how they may be collected.

Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

Discusses elephants, their physiology, behavior, evolution, relatives, uses by humans, and conservation.

Young readers can lift the flaps to find the babies and touch their textured clothes and toys. On board pages. Young readers can lift the flaps to find the babies and touch their textured clothes and toys.

Asks "Where has the baby gone?" and invites readers to look behind the flaps to discover them hiding in different outfits, in a book with textured surfaces for readers to feel